Views of Violence

Jörg Echternkamp is Research Director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw), Potsdam, and Associate Professor of Modern History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

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Introduction: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

Jörg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger



PART I: MUSEUMS



Chapter 1. Multi-Voiced and Personal: Second World War Remembrance in German Museums

Thomas Thiemeyer



Chapter 2. The Experientiality of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century European Museums (Normandy, Ardennes, Germany)

Stephan Jaeger



Chapter 3. Exhibiting Images of War: The Use of Historic Media in the Bundeswehr Military Museum (Dresden) and the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester)

Jana Hawig



Chapter 4. In the Eye of the Beholder: Gaze and Distance through Photographic Collage in the Topography of Terror and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Erin Johnston-Weiss



Chapter 5. The Challenging Representation of National-Socialist Perpetrators in Exhibitions: Two Examples from Austria and Germany

Sarah Kleinmann



Chapter 6. “Warschau erhebt sich”: The 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the Nationalization of European Identity in the Berlin Republic

Winson Chu



PART II: MEMORIALS AND MEMORIAL LANDSCAPES



Chapter 7. A Culture of Remembrance, Memorials and Museum in the Hürtgenwald Region

Karola Fings



Chapter 8. Contested Heroes, Contested Places: Conflicting Visions of War at Heldenplatz/Ballhausplatz in Vienna

Peter Pirker, Magnus Koch, and Johannes Kramer



Chapter 9. Commemorating Flight and Expulsion vor Ort: Local Expellee Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe

Jeffrey Luppes



Chapter 10. Local Battlefields as “Cultural Landscape” of Global Value? Views of War in Normandy and the Classification as World Heritage

Jörg Echternkamp



Afterword: The Memory Boom and the Commemoration of the Second World War

Jay Winter



Index